Faculty Bibliography

No one knows how many Swedish doctors have criminal records, in part because of Swedish laws and culture that emphasize personal integrity. When Mr. [Svensson]'s classmates were asked at a student meeting how many had criminal records, nine other men and women said they did, according to an article in the medical student union's publication, Medicor. No definition of what constituted a crime was given. Speaking of the general problems in admitting a murderer to medical school, Dr. [Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson] said: ''In the final analysis, it comes down to trust, because when you are a patient you are putting your life in someone else's hands.'' Last week, she said that because Mr. Svensson's expulsion was based on a technicality, his case did not resolve the broad issue of who is fit to be a doctor and whether a murderer forfeits the right to become one. That, she repeated, is up to Swedish legislators and government officials, who have given her mixed messages so far

There was no legal way to expel Mr. [Svensson], because ''no national policy covers the situation,'' Dr. Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, the Karolinska's president, said last month. The only grounds for expulsion would be if he were a threat to others or had a psychiatric illness, she said. ''That seemed strange to us, so on Wednesday we asked the national agency responsible for verifying application documents to check,'' and they could not verify the transcript, Dr. Wallberg-Henriksson said in a telephone interview on Thursday. ''We were under the assumption that they had done it because that's their responsibility.'' She met with students again when Mr. Svensson identified himself before his classmates. At that meeting, Mr. Svensson spoke for about 10 minutes without apologizing for the murder or his past. He did say, ''Today, I am not the person I was 10 years ago,'' Dr. Wallberg-Henriksson said

In a study published online by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the bacteria seemed to be spread most easily through anal intercourse but also through casual skin-to-skin contact and touching contaminated surfaces.

''We can say we have a culprit with the smoking gun at the scene of the crime, but that still doesn't mean he's guilty,'' Dr. [Patrick S. Moore] said in a telephone interview. ''We have a long way to go to prove that this agent is really the cause,'' he said. ''But the fact that the virus is so strongly associated with the tumor is at least a very good bet that it is playing an important role.'' ''It is not every day,'' Dr. [Anthony S. Fauci] said, ''that you have some pretty compelling molecular proof that a virus is associated, likely causally, with development of a particular cancerous process.''

Anew, highly drug-resistant strain of the 'flesh-eating' MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers have reported. The new strain seems to have 'spread rapidly' in gay populations in San Francisco and Boston, the researchers wrote, and 'has the potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination' among gay men. The infection can cause unusually severe problems, including abscesses and skin ulcers. The bacteria can invade through the skin to produce necrotizing fasciitis, the scientific name for flesh- eating bacteria

A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the ''flesh-eating'' MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday. The new strain seems to have ''spread rapidly'' in gay populations in San Francisco and Boston, the researchers wrote, and ''has the potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination'' among gay men. Of the alternatives recommended by the C.D.C. and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim), clindamycin and a tetracycline, ''this strain is resistant to two of those three,'' he added. ''In addition, the new strain is resistant to mupirocin, which has been advocated for eradicating the strain from carriers.''

With modifications, scientists should be able to grow a human heart by taking stem cells from a patient's bone marrow and placing them in a cadaver heart that has been prepared as a scaffold, [Doris Taylor] said in an interview by telephone from her laboratory in Minneapolis. The early success 'opens the door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas - you name it, and we hope we can make it,' she said. Todd McAllister of Cytograft Tissue Engineering in Novato, California, said, 'Doris Taylor's work is one of those maddeningly simple ideas that you knock yourself on the head, saying, 'Why didn't I think of that?' ' McAllister's team has used a snippet of a patient's skin to grow blood vessels in a laboratory, and then implanted them to restore blood flow around a patient's damaged arteries and veins. 'The heart is a beautiful organ,' Taylor said, 'and it's not one that I thought I'd ever be able to build in a dish.'

A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the 'flesh-eating' MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday. The new strain seems to have 'spread rapidly' in gay populations in San Francisco and Boston, the researchers wrote, and 'has the potential for rapid, nationwide dissemination' among gay men. Of the alternatives recommended by the CDC and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim), clindamycin and a tetracycline, 'this strain is resistant to two of those three,' he added. 'In addition, the new strain is resistant to mupirocin, which has been advocated for eradicating the strain from carriers.'

Experts not involved in the Minnesota work called it 'a landmark achievement' and 'a stunning' development, but they and the Minnesota researchers cautioned that the dream, if ever realized, was still a decade away. With modifications, scientists should be able to grow a human heart by taking stem cells from a patient's bone marrow and placing them in a cadaver heart that has been prepared as a scaffold, [Doris A. Taylor] said in a telephone interview from her laboratory in Minneapolis. The early success 'opens the door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas -- you name it and we hope we can make it,' she said